Duct-Taped Roses

InDuct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss.

As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men.

Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and whatinevitablyis lost to time. (From Book*Hug Press)

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Nickersonis a writer from Halifax who nowlives in Vancouver. His other poetry collections includeThe Asthmatic Glassblower,McPoems,Impact: The Titanic PoemsandArtificial Cherry.He teaches creative writing atKwantlen Polytechnic University.